Session Details

Friday, 28 December

289. Peregrine Words: The Violence of Translation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Erie, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Presiding: Heather James, Univ. of Southern California

1. “Converting the Text: The Bible and Homer in Jacobean England,” Jeffrey Spencer Shoulson, Univ. of Miami

2. “‘Knaves,’ ‘Slaves,’ and ‘Negars’: Translating Race in Early Modern Europe,” Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern Univ.

3. “Faultful Aegisthus; or, Translating Homer’s Irony,” Jessica Lynn Wolfe, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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